Seventeen Veteran Baseball Scouts Sue Baseball for Age Discrimination

By Ed Edmonds Seventeen veteran baseball scouts filed an Age Discrimination in Employment Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 621–634) lawsuit against Commissioner Rob Manfred and all thirty MLB clubs on June 21 in the United States District Court for Colorado. The lawsuit also raised claims under eleven different state laws (Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Utah) and a New York City ordinance.  The crux of the action is that